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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
perspectives on how to allocate water, the institutional mechanisms for doing so, and the potential responses of agricultural producers to the changing marketplace. Is now the time to double down on farming in the Central Valley, shift to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
University. HMC has managed the Harvard endowment portfolio since 1974. Its mission is to ensure the University has the financial resources to confidently maintain and expand its leadership in education and research for future...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
strikingly, we all came from very privileged backgrounds, we had all done similar arts degrees at elite institutions, and we had no divine right to be there. We learned everything we knew about that job on the job. And I was in finance for five years. I wanted to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
plan work streams that are cutting across the business. And most companies are building out what they would call an enterprise PMO to be able to help coordinate and execute that-Kerr: Can you define PMO for us?Petitti: Portfolio and...
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- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial reports have strong implications for firms' future returns: a portfolio that shorts "changers" and buys "non-changers" earns up to 188 basis points per month (over 22% per year) in abnormal returns in the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
liquid and effective," he says. "Mutual funds deepen the capital markets, and the capital markets lubricate our entire economy by allocating financial resources." For the consumer, the mutual fund combines a number of attractions in a...
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Garry Emmons
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
CSC fits into IBM's broader corporate citizenship portfolio and IBM's globalization strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409106 Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A) Harvard Business...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements, nonconvergence problems, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
care Over these challenging times, the need for organizations that form part of the social support net is key. Yet, it is at these times that social impact organizations are the most vulnerable. The first crunch being faced by organizations across sectors is...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
"treated" with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when deciding on the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge,...
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Nancy O. Perry
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examination of the properties that define the entertainment, media, and sports industries, and how those properties together introduce a unique set of challenges and opportunities for managers. Subsequent modules explore: How can entertainment businesses best View Details